Ken Starr's Wife Speaks Out
Tuesday October 20 12:01 PM EDT
By DINO HAZELL Associated Press Writer
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NEW YORK (AP) _ After months of keeping quiet as her husband was ''maligned'' while sharing the spotlight in the presidential sex scandal, Alice Starr has decided to speak out.
''The most frustrating thing is that he can't defend himself. He's not allowed to speak,'' she tells Mirabella in what the magazine calls the first published interview with the wife of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
In its November-December issue, the magazine says Ms. Starr, a public relations executive, decided to speak out after New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd suggested that her husband is sex-crazed because of the lurid details he included in his report on President Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
''I probably read more than Ken does and have recently looked at some of the cable programs that describe all this, and it hurts me to see him maligned,'' she said. ''But the fact is he's a very loving husband, he's a very loving father, and our marriage will be unaffected by all this.'' The couple have three children.
Of Dowd, she said, ''I don't think she has ever met my husband, and she doesn't know my husband.''
Starr's selection as special prosecutor in 1994 changed the couple's life to a pressure-cooker existence, according to the article. He receives death threats, hasn't had a weekend off in four years and must run a daily gantlet of reporters and cameras just to leave his driveway.
Despite that, the Starrs have maintained a semblance of a home life, in which he coached a softball team and she shops, cooks, cleans and chauffeurs neighborhood children, the article said.
He also has managed to leave the stress of the Clinton case at the office, Ms. Starr said.
''He has never brought home any of the facts. He feels strongly about protecting his family from anything and everything that he knows,'' she said. ''I definitely can sense the pressure that he's under, but I don't want to make it worse for him by saying, 'Oh, gee, you're under a lot of pressure,' because I really can't help him in his job.''
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